Staff Software Engineer, Edge
At a Glance
- Location
- US; Remote, US
- Work Regime
- remote
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- 2026-06-30T16:26:10-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Automation
- Engineering
- Legal
- Medical
Requirements
6+ years of experience in infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering, with a deep focus on traffic management systems (CDN, HTTP gateways, service mesh, or load balancing).
Experience with bot detection, scraping prevention, or automation traffic management systems is a plus.
Proficiency in C++, Golang, or Python, with experience developing L7 HTTP proxies such as Envoy, Nginx, Varnish, and Traefik.
Deep understanding of network protocols across L3-L7 and hands-on experience debugging production networking issues at scale.
Experience gathering requirements from internal users, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and delivering credible technical plans.
Proven ability to design distributed systems architectures and drive them from proposal through proof of concept to production.
Responsibilities
Build Edge systems that combine in-house implementation, open-source software like Envoy proxy, and multiple CDN & DNS providers.
Balance what to build, what to leverage from the community, and what to orchestrate across vendors.
Drive automation traffic management efforts in the Edge space, designing solutions to manage bots and crawlers at scale.
Design and implement request processing logic in Envoy to support Edge capabilities such as routing, traffic classification, and enforcement.
Write, review, and maintain code written in C++, Golang, and Python.
Collaborate with CDN vendors and internal platform teams to define integration points.